Malkia Amal Cyril, executive director of the Center for Media Justice and co-founder of the Media Action Grassroots Network, Malkia Amal Cyril’s work

MPs David Davis and Tom Watson

Maricarmen Sequera is the director of TEDIC, a Paraguayan digital rights organization

Journalists Scahill and Begleyrevealed that American and British spies hacked into the internal computer network of the world’s largest producer of SIM cards and stole vast quantities of encryption keys

As director of the digital liberties organization Bolo Bhi, Farieha Aziz has been at the forefront of the campaign to modify the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2015, currently under consideration in Pakistan.

Netzpolitik released confidential documents to the public exposing Germany’s plans to launch bulk surveillance programs

a District Court struck down an 11-year-old gag order imposed by the FBI on Nicholas Merrill, the owner of Calyx, an internet service provider.

Kakao (formerly Daum Kakao), owns a South Korean internet company with a popular messaging service

The U.N. Human Rights Council

Moxie Marlinspike (& team), founder of Open Whisper Systems, an open source software group that freely offers the programs Signal, TextSecure, and Redphone

Anthony Batts, former Commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department in the U.S. Acting under a nondisclosure agreement with the FBI that was signed by a previous commissioner, the Baltimore Police Department used the “Stingray” surveillance device 4,300 times

Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi argued before India’s Supreme Court that privacy is not a fundamental right

Spanish Judge Javier Gómez Bermúdezjailed seven people without specifying the individualized charges or facts attributed to each suspect, forcing the defendants to make statements without knowing what they were accused of.

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Prime Minister of Thailand, Prayut Chan-o-chaapproved legislation to create a National Cybersecurity Committee

Washington Post Editorial Board suggested that the U.S. Congress could compel Apple and Google to use their “wizardry” to create a “Secure Golden Key” for the government to access otherwise secure user data

Gerhard Schindler is president of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND)

U.S. Senator Richard Burr, As chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Burr has been a driving force behind the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) legislation